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In 2009, this year had a great impact for people worldwide. This is the year that people start to meet more friends around the world, share their story widely, and socializing in the digital world. Social media changed the way we live. It brings convenience and entertainment to people. Before the Facebook was launched, people were used telephone or wrote a letter to communicated with friends and family. “Facebook is still yours, for you and your friends (all of your friends) to connect with each other and share information.” (Carolyn). After social media was established, it changed everything. Facebook has initiated the new age of the digital media; it gives a great impact to people that can communicate to each other without worrying about distance and sharing the information around the world. Facebook allow the user to send multiple messages, facetime immediately and receive current event. And now, social media has multiple platforms, such as Twitter, Instagram, tumbler, and snapchat. Although social media has brought convenience to people, on the other hand, it also is poisoning our society

A lot of students think attending a physical class is boring. Some come to the class sit down and listen to the instructor’s lecture they may not like. One of the reasons that social media can be used as an educational tool is because it can motivate the students to learn and let them feel interesting to learn. For example, Jessica Caviness was an educator from Coppell High School in Texas and She was a new Twitter user. When Mrs. Caviness told her geometry class that she had just obtained a Twitter account after attending a workshop. The students welcomed her to the digital online platform jokingly, as they immediately took out their phones one after another and followed her. Later in a baseball game of the Texas Rangers, she was refreshed of a situation from class a few weeks earlier. She went on and tweeted a picture and requested students to develop problems associated problems. Repeatedly the students never hesitated. Even

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before the game was over she had a couple of replies from the students. (November and Mull). Mrs. Caviness example is invocate and creative. She successfully guides her students to apply geometry and acknowledges them into real life and her students answer question zealously. Another reason that school should use social media to educate is because social media can receive current information immediately to user and helps student going on the right track. Social media can be entered at any time by students and teachers anywhere by use of their gadgets be it laptop, smartphone or a desktop. Pop-up notifications are enabled in devices on a tab that one wishes to keep on. It can also be viewed regardless of the application that is on this alerts the use and can respond promptly. This is appropriate in time where crucial resources are sent. For example, if a teacher wanted to make a modification all he needed to do is tweet it with a link on it or send a Facebook post with a link too (Rashidi). Social media has not just changed our lives, but also changing the education system too. Some schools and educators have already started using social media to teach and there is much more to follow in the future.

In today’s society, people are using social medias like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube to gain popularity. The intention of used social media was meant for people to socialize, which means they can know more people around the world and communicate without distance. Some educators might use social media as an effective education tool for the student to learn because most of the students have using social media and it can easily to motivate students to learn. Unfortunately, those social medias are containing a lot of personal information and completely invade our privacy. Not only personal privacy but also educators will easily lose their career because light of the fact and child predator target child by using social media. Moreover,

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social media technology can cause distraction, bad sleep quality, and psychological symptoms. In my opinion, I believe traditional learning more effective than social media learning.

Although social media can be a powerful educational tool, but traditional learning has it unique value that social media cannot provide. One of the reasons that social media learning has limited environment. “Whether it is through classroom-based discussions or scientific experiments, physical classrooms are able to offer more methods of interaction than online classrooms can provide. With more ways to interact with new subject matter, students may have a deeper understanding of the curriculum with longer-lasting retention of the material. Plus, there is a social component to classroom learning that is compromised with online coursework.” (“The Advantages of Classroom Learning over Online Education”). Moreover, science laboratory has a big advantage that social media can’t provide. Unlike textbook, science lab can provide experiments and students can learn from the course while working. It is important to observe the experiment and record the process of the lab. But it is also important to know the theories, concepts, and principles. When using social media, usually students just following the instructor course schedule and finish it before the deadline. A disadvantage to use social media is teacher may not be able to take care everyone. In a physical class, teacher can adjust the course assignment base on the student rate of progress and have a discussion to give students some ideas on their assignment. “While online courses may still require that students take tests and write essays, there is a dramatic reduction in the level of student assessment that can take place. When teachers are not able to see how students work on a daily basis, they will not be able to gauge as accurately whether a student is fully understanding the material. Teachers in the classroom might be able to offer extra assistance or utilize a different approach to teaching a given subject,

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while teachers managing online courses will not have the same opportunities.” (“The Advantages of Classroom Learning over Online Education”).

The intention of social media is to be socialize and share the information When users first start using the social media, they need to create an account to represent themselves in digital world. Social media account contains a user’s personal information such as full name, birth date, chart history, images, living address, and cellphone number. If user being hack by hacker, it is a serious problem. In Las Vegas, at the PC security meeting Black Hat, Alessandro Acquisti, a partner educator of data innovation and open approach at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, indicated how a photo of a man can be utilized to discover his or her date of birth, government managed savings number, and other data by utilizing facial acknowledgment innovation to coordinate the picture to a profile on Facebook and different sites (Naone). Some of the hackers might able to steal user’s information for social media account and bank account. Therefore, social media is not a safety platform to be teaching because of hackers might able to hack in account and change information setting.

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Although the purpose of the social media is used to be social, but some of the people will abuse it to check over other people. Online resources tend to be helpful. A survey done in the city of New York gives statistics that college admissions officers who wanted to learn more about a student looked up their information in Google hitting 29% whereas those who visited any other social network to be about 31% with respect to Kaplan Test Prep’s 2013. Initially when Kaplan began the study only a mere 10% used Facebook and other social platforms to check students’ details. In the previous year, only 27% had used Facebook meanwhile 26% preferred Google being a rise from 20% to 24%. (“Kaplan Test Prep Survey: More College Admissions Officers Checking Applicants’ Digital Trails, But Most Students Unconcerned”). Therefore, most students are becoming more careful about what they share also well-informed about making privacy settings stronger and avoid search, Christine Brown said Executive Director of Kaplan Test Prep. A survey also done one students showed that 22% had changed their original names on social media, 26% had removed tagged from pictures and 12% had erased their social media accounts. (Kaplan Test Prep Survey: More College Admissions Officers Checking Applicants’ Digital Trails, But Most Students Unconcerned). Because in most of the social media applications, a user can what other users post are and some users may not like other stranger to see his or her post.

Social Network is used connect all the people around you. Not just friends, but also your family, classmates or employees from company. Therefore, people need more to be careful to post everything they say on social network. In physical world, people can share over the phone, message or talk in person. A author name Anne P. Mintz who wrote a book called WEB OF DECEIT. “Sharing your thoughts and activates online in and of itself is not necessarily a

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problem. The problem comes when users forget that everyone in their social network is reading their posts” (Mintz 32). She gave a social media confession to readers that if they not use it carefully, which may cause trouble

Some educators may consider social network as an effective educational tool, but some of them may get trouble with that. On account of the educator let go for drinking, she didn't have any guardians or any understudies as friends on her Facebook, but she was fired in light of the fact that some person that she was friend with sent that data to a parent or the head of the school. (Bartlett). Also, A youthful instructor was let go from her occupation in Georgia in light of the fact that an incensed parent got hold of a photo of her with two beverages — and really prompted to her being let go by the principal. (Barlett). It is a laughable that educators got fired by drinking and sharing their movement. When teachers get off from work, their identity should turn back as a regular person just like the other. To pervert this situation, happen again. The NLESD has an approach via web-based networking media use by instructors, which says that individual records should not to be utilized for any kind of school business, and that when in doubt educators shouldn't present anything related on their employments or understudies on a webpage like Facebook (Barlett). Therefore, social network has conflict with education that people will concern what other people said and post in Facebook or Twitter. Especially between educators and parents.

In fact, many teachers do not agree to bring social media into educational system. Many teachers’ think using social network might bring bad consequence. A teacher who worked at Ladue Horton Watkins High School in St. Louis, Missouri. He said, “The main reason I’d like to try to avoid social media use is a moral one. Kids today are addicted to technology; school can,

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and should, remain the one safe haven where they can unplug and just be present. Do we really want to give them another reason to be ‘connected?’” (Leticht and Goble). Some teachers still think traditional way is better than social media learning. Students and teachers can talk to face to face, they no need to be using texting to instead talking and starving at the screen. Not only teachers buy also the schools. “Though teachers and students are now pushing learning beyond the borders of the classroom through social networking, that move also comes with hurdles, including the fact that many schools still block access to such sites within their walls. School officials must also confront the uncertainties and questions surrounding privacy issues, proper management, and cyber security when they open their doors to social-networking sites.” (Davis).

Every parent care about their child safety is understandable. Some parent may concern their child talk too much to their teacher. But they should more concern about the sexual predator on social media rather than texting with teachers. Because most of the children do not have awareness of the child predators. When a stranger texting them by using social network, they will easier be attract with. A special agent in GBI’s Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes

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Unit name John Whitaker, he said “Child predators have ‘worked their language down to an art on how to approach children who don't think anybody else cares about their problems or wants

to spend time with them’” (Acohido). There has a lot of examples on YouTube. One of video name “The Dangers of Social Media (Child Predator Social Experiment)” (Persin), this is social experiment to show that how child predator use their method to hunt the children. The creator of this video – Coby Persin, he makes a fake profit on Facebook and randomly sends friends request to several teenage and try to date them. In this video, most of the accepted his friend request and talk to him or dating him directly. This is a good video to allow parents to teach their children the beware of the child predator.

Despite social media start merging in educational system slowly and teachers begin using it to teach. In fact, social media learning is not adapting on every student, especially college students. According a research form wrote by Dian Schffhauser. It said: “Students are more distracted than ever. They tend to check their digital devices, particularly, their smartphones, an average of 11.43 times during class for non-classroom activities. A solid 12 percent do texting, emailing, checking the time or other activities in class more than 30 times a day.” (Schffhauser).

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Which means, college students are busy checking their social networking while class teaching. It is not a good behavior in class. When teachers is teaching, their students should listen and

respect them. Beside college student, student cannot manage multiple things at the same time. According Dr. David Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan speech: “under most conditions, the brain simply cannot do two complex tasks at the same time. Listening to a lecture while texting, or doing homework and being on Facebook—each of these tasks is very demanding, and each of them uses the same area of the brain, the prefrontal cortex." (Beyond BookSmart Blog: Executive Functioning Strategies).

Social media not just distracting the students, but also social media can lead children to bad sleep quality. According a research by Dr. Heather Cleland Woods and Holly Scott from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, “The researchers found that teenagers who used social media and had high emotional investment in social media had poorer sleep quality, lower self-esteem and higher rates of anxiety and depression than teenagers who were less emotionally invested in social media.” (Woods). Additional, Dr. Woods said: "While overall social media use impacts on sleep quality, those who log on at night appear to be particularly affected. This may be mostly true of individuals who are highly emotionally invested. This means we have to think about how our kids use social media, in relation to time for switching off."(Woods). Base on this research, if teenagers have bad sleep quality, which affect their grade standing in school.

Social media not only impact U.S.A. educational system, but also the students. Base on a study from PewResearchCenter, “91% of teens go online from a mobile device, at least occasionally. 4  African-American teens are significantly more likely than whites or Hispanics to use mobile devices to go online — with nearly all African-American youth in the study reporting

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mobile internet access at least occasionally, while 90% of white and 91% of Hispanic teens go online on-the-go.” (Lenhart). Today society, almost every child has smartphone and they use social media a lot. It is a problem that people should concern about. Since children using social media a lot and they should put in down while attending school. Therefore, social media like Facebook and Twitter is not a good platform for education. Moreover, it is a seriousness social issue that kids refuse to talking in person. If children not talk face to face and only be socialize in in digital world, which affect their grade standing in school. Plus, which might also cause psychological symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, or stress. Because people start forget their purpose of using Facebook and Twitter, they spent too much time limited themselves on social media. From a professor of psychology at Califionia State University, Doming Hills. His name called Larry Rosen and He says: “Many kids say they prefer not to talk face to face,” He added: “they rely on written communication only, mainly via text or social media sites, especially when communicating with adults. That choice might damage young people's communication skills for years to come” (Rosen). For children who depend on social media to communicate, which might reduce their communication skills and cause depression. According to Dr Joanne Davila, a psychology professor at Stony Brook University in New York. Davila said: “Texting, instant messaging and social networking make it very easy for adolescents to become even more anxious, which can lead to depression.” (Davila). She also said: “Lots of talking can help if those involved have strong problem-solving skills because it helps them reach a solution and it builds friendships.” (Davila). Obviously, children can talk face to face in school, and they can learn from it and starting build their relationship with each other.

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Social media has impact our society and education system. People can use social network to communicate with their friends by messaging or facetime. Some teachers and schools start using social media as a educational tool. Despite educators’ use consider it is a powerful and effective as a educational tool. However, social network has other negative surface that people might not notice. To use social media learning compare with traditional learning. Obviously, Traditional has more advantages than social media learning. Unlike social network, traditional method can allow students interflow with teachers in face to face. Plus, students can learn being socialize in virtual. Because social media has limited environment, students and educators can limited in messaging to communicate. Also, college offer science lab to student to let them have a deeper understand on science field, such as concepts, principles, and theories. In my opinion, traditional learning is more effective than social media learning.

Social media change the way people lived. It brings us convenience of communicate over the world without worry about the distance and it is an innovate in education system. The purpose of the social media is share the information and be socialize in digital. Some educators might think Facebook or Twitter can lead students to learning. However, those social media containing to many user’s privacy, once the hackers hacked in user’s account and share their information to other people, it is completely invaded user’s privacy and it will put user’s in dangerous. Second, educators might get fire by posting photos on Facebook because they accepted their student’s friend request and now they can see all the posting from teachers. When student’s parent see it, they might get angry and report to teacher’s school directly. Plus, parent should more concern about their children and teach them the awareness of child predators. Many teenagers do not know about them. To catch the children, child predator will use social media to

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dating the children or texting them. In fact, most of the children will accept their request. Therefore, parents should teach their children that how to protecting themselves and not talking to strangers rather than check the conversation between student and teacher. Third, many research had found that using social media would cause distraction and high rates of depression. Plus, social media can cause bad sleep quality for students If students do not pay attention in class, not only affect their grade, but also reduce their communication skill with people. Communication is important because this is the method people used to interflow with other. Also, children using social media every day and too depend on it. Therefore, teachers and schools should stop using social media for student.

Marion Ginapolis said: “It is not about the technology; it’s about sharing knowledge and information, communicating efficiently, building learning communities and creating a culture of professionalism in schools. These are the key responsibilities of all educational leaders.” Despite social media cannot be a good educational tool for school, but I still believe that people will develop a better learning tool as combine both traditional and e-learning.